An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.

The “Russiagate” narrative that the Russians hacked into private emails to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election has effectively recast international relations. But it has been coming apart and a just-released recording of a Seymour Hersh phone call may be a fatal blow.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Since the “Russiagate” scandal and anti-Russia hysteria first began, substantial evidence has emerged to debunk many of the claims made by their proponents. For instance, the “Russian hacker” narrative has lost all credibility, as

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

Journalist Seymour Hersh has given us good reason to believe what many have long suspected: that the “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee, which supposedly delivered the White House to Donald Trump, was an inside job. In a recorded phone

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Justin Raimondo

Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com and author of Reclaiming the American Right: Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement & Enemy of the State: Life of M. Rothbard. He is also a regular contributor to The American Conservative and Chronicles magazine.

Never one to accept the U.S. government’s official explanation of events without question, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has investigated Donald Trump’s decision to strike the al-Shayat Airbase in Syria in April of this year, which the president launched amid

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Darius Shahtahmasebi

Darius Shahtahmasebi is a practicing attorney with an interest in human rights, international law, and journalism. He is a graduate of the University of Otago, where he obtained degrees in Law and Japanese. Follow him on Twitter at @TVsLeaking.

Dear Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
We are a group of military veterans who are hoping NOT to be blown off the face of this planet in a nuclear exchange precipitated by events in Syria.
The U.S. is close to confronting nuclear-armed Russia over Syria. This situation was triggered by the recent Assad-Did-It-Again story, “gassing his own

Washington’s unwillingness to cooperate with Russia in Syria and its hesitancy to separate moderate rebels from terrorists on the ground means, apparently, that the US “has never prioritized confronting terrorism in Syria,” a journalist notes, suggesting that the US’ Syrian operation could have been part of a broader agenda.

The US' "regime change" operation in Syria could have been part of a broader plan aimed at destabilizing the Middle East, Joseph Thomas, chief editor of Thailand-based geopolitical journal, The New Atlas, suggests, citing Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and retired US Army General Wesley

MINNEAPOLIS --- The Syrian civil war has created chaos throughout the Middle East, given rise to an unprecedented refugee crisis, and helped fuel terrorism internationally.
Award-winning investigative journalist Seymour